HENRO, 2026

In March 2024, Dutch fine art photographer Bastiaan Woudt and his brother cycled the Shikoku Henro, one of the oldest pilgrimage routes in the world. Over 1,200 kilometres. Eighty-eight Buddhist temples. Four prefectures, each marking a distinct spiritual stage: awakening, ascetic training, enlightenment, nirvana.

They did not walk. They cycled, not to move faster, but to find a different relationship to distance, terrain, and time.

There was no fixed plan. No intention to document. What they were looking for was space.

What came back were fragments. Images that carry the quality of memory rather than fact. Photographs that resist explanation. They are not pictures of a place. They are traces of an experience.